Below is Kathie Lynch’s detailed wolf report for the end of the summer. It sounds like the return of the Druids must have been one of the most amazing wildlife sights wolf watchers in Yellowstone have ever witnessed. Yellowstone wolf report. July 11-Aug. 20. By © Kathie Lynch Summer in Yellowstone meant hot, windy days,…
I’ve haven’t posted a BFC update for a while, and it’s time. RM Update: related. State vet: Brucellosis came from elk. By Jennifer McKee. Helena Independent Review State Bureau – – – – – –
This is another great report by Kathie Lynch. Unfortunately, it looks like wolf watching in the Park might now be pretty slow until autumn. Ralph Maughan – – – – – – Yellowstone wolf field notes, July 8 -10. By © Kathie Lynch The Druid Peak pack finally moved their pups to their rendezvous site!…
The Casper Star Tribune highlights an important threat to wildlife habitat – weeds: Waging war on weeds The article gives a pretty good indication of the extent to which different weeds threaten wildlife habitat and are an economic scourge – but I will take issue with one statement made in the article : Native plants…
What an outrage! The officials who speak for this special interest group need to be put in their place. This should be a national campaign issue. Focus on elk as brucellosis persists near Yellowstone. By Matthew Brown, Associated Press Writer. They will have to kill every elk in the Greater Yellowstone, and, of course, every…
Kathie Lynch is spending the summer in Yellowstone. This is her first report of the summer. The Druid pups have finally been seen, and there are at least nine. Ralph Maughan – – – – – – – YNP WOLF Notes, June 16-July 5, 2008 By © Kathie Lynch Yellowstone’s late spring rain and snow…
Resistance to the scientific consensus of the existence of climate change is waning ~ politicized prescriptions for inaction and for the relaxation of public environmental laws takes its place. Last week, federal and state wildlife and public land managers gathered to talk about global warming and the effects it will have on western land and…
Some would say it was the massive bad karma from killing more than 1,600 of the nation’s last wild buffalo by state and federal agents—the largest bison slaughter since the white man’s extinction of the millions-strong herds that once roamed the Great Plains. Or maybe it was the on-going and vicious political struggle between Gov.…
Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University. He was a Western Watersheds Project Board Member off and on for many years, and was also its President for several years. For a long time he produced Ralph Maughan’s Wolf Report. He was a founder of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. He and Jackie Johnson Maughan wrote three editions of “Hiking Idaho.” He also wrote “Beyond the Tetons” and “Backpacking Wyoming’s Teton and Washakie Wilderness.” He created and is the administrator of The Wildlife News.